Close Reading: Sartre’s Being & Nothingness: Introduction: Section I
This is a new format experiment. On regular PEL episodes, we translate the strange language of our authors into (hopefully) understandable, everyday talk. This teaches you the ideas of the authors, but won’t necessarily give you the skills to read them yourselves, particularly for very thorny texts like this one: Being and Nothingness.
The cost for this pilot product is now 99 cents. Whether more of them get recorded is entirely a matter of audience interest. Use comments on this page to discuss the text and provide feedback, if you’d like. You can also email me at mark@marklint.com.
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#1 by Christopher G. on November 29, 2011 - 3:00 pm
I love this and would totally buy more! I’ve been looking for something like this, that’s how I originally found PEL.